michigan association of intermediate school administrators board of directors march 2012

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Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators

Board of Directors March 2012Lee Warne

AESA - Executive Directorlwarne@aesa.us

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The AESA Mission:

Serve as a national voice for ESAs; Provide professional development, technical

assistance, advocacy, and research; Help member agencies promote, distribute, and

leverage ESA knowledge, products, and services; Assist in the establishment of ESAs.

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2011

AESA.US

AESA’s Priorities:

• Professional Development for ESA’s• Technical Assistance to ESA’s• Supporting New ESA’s– States– Creating statewide networks

• Increasing our level of communications and develop an information repository

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Federal Legislation

• Focus on keeping ESAs written into legislation

• ESEA reauthorization• E-Rate and Anti-Deficiency Act• Veteran’s bill reauthorization

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ESEA Reauthorization

• AESA Key Talking Points – – We support a new framework for the

reauthorization of ESEA that focuses the federal role on students in poverty

– We support strengthening the connection between high poverty schools and federal programs providing health and mental health care for children and their families, particularly ages zero to five

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ESEA Reauthorization

• AESA Key Talking Points– Support the use of formative assessments to

directly improve student achievement– Support an accountability system that uses

multiple sources of evidence and a growth measure; is fair to all students and calls for federal authority that is commensurate with federal funding

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Latest Federal Financial Info

• Obama Budget pushes ED – but still relies on competition

• Title I and IDEA are level fund but only = 15.8% of the 40% promised

• $1 B for RttT and I3 - $850 M is RttT• Sequestration – congress needs to find $1.2 T

in savings over 10 yrs or cuts will be automatic Jan. 13 = 9% across the board in 1st yr.

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Common Core

• Wisconsin – – All CESAs did phase I together using common

awareness kit to train schools– Each CESA is now moving into the next level– CESA 7 has a software system that they have

developed and sell. Some agencies and state’s departments of education have been using them

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Common Core

• Michigan (That’s YOU!)

–Have done the phase I portion together–Currently developing the next round of

information–Your statewide network helps greatly! Not

all states have the ability to coordinate this kind of work.

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Common Core

• Iowa–Prior to Common Core Standards had Iowa

Core Standards in place – very similar–Adopted Common Core–AEAs, department of education worked

together to develop common training materials.–AEAs training the teachers

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How to Become More Involved in AESA

Attend our ConferencesSummer CEO Conference

July 23-26, 2012 Boise, Idaho

Educators’ Call to Action ConferenceSeptember , 2012ARC – Arlington, VA

AESA Annual Conference2012 AESA Annual Conference, 12/5-8

Tampa Bay, Floridawww.aesa.us

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AESA Business Partners

& Sponsors

Corwin Press Direct Energy

Grace Global Marsden Holdings

Great American Financial Resources

Promethean AEPA

Psychological Software Solutions

United States Academic Decathlon

Mid-Continent Regional Education Laboratory

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Contact AESA

Visit the AESA Website Often

We are constantly updating information important to your ESA

www.aesa.us

Phone:507-401-3306

E-Mail: lwarne@aesa.us